Perspective Quotes

• I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Perspective

• I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Perspective

• It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I had when I first got up here was, 'We really do live on a planet, and we are in a solar system, and we are flying through space right now.' I mean, this is something that you know, obviously, but to see the planet - it's amazing.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Up
  • Live
  • Space

• During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Career

• A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • God
  • Mind
  • Perspective

• I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Religious
  • Perspective
  • Atheist

• You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek etc. Then came movies like Terminator and Dune. Burton is also a really big reader and loves sci-fi novels which helps him write. It's also really cool he does that because it's through the perspective of how we see things going or possibly going.

  

  Dino Cazares Asesino
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Helping

• When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Different
  • Desire
  • Perspective

• I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • People
  • Perspective

• Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Wonder

• 'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Important
  • Long
  • Reason

• But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Best

• Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Political
  • Food
  • Health

• I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'

  

  Charlie Worsham
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • World
  • Kids
  • Powerful

• The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • God
  • May
  • Marriage

• I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Theory

• I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • World
  • Character

• The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • True
  • Free

• My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Spiritual

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